Word: orwellian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lawyer-interviewers. To atone for this defect, Yarmolinsky made a special effort to rely on such documentary evidence as the written charges, the written responses of the employees under investigation, and the transcripts of the hearings furnished to the employees. As such, the Yarmolinsky report affords an Orwellian glimpse behind the closed doors of the security program. Some of the case histories...
...days of tours, tea parties, toasts and sights (which included the inside of the Kremlin and the tomb of Lenin and Stalin), the touring Laborites were ready to take off for their final destination: Red China. Of Moscow's Malenkov, Clement Attlee remarked with Orwellian crypticism: "He is the most equal of the equals." Nye Bevan was warmer in praise. The Soviet Premier, he said, was "a man with a warm sense of humor...
TIME'S article . . . reads like a scene from an Orwellian nightmare. More and more, responsible people are coming to realize that the U.S. is becoming just as great a threat to civilization as the Soviet Union when men like Dr. Edward Teller and Lewis Strauss are allowed to play God with the H-bomb...
...then probed out into the great, windswept Northwest. Their objective as such was not economic but strategic, i.e., to get direct new communications with Russia. To this end. the Communists relentlessly dragooned hundreds of thousands of peasants from their homes to the railroad sites. Soviet experts gave them an Orwellian slogan: "Work comes first. Time comes first. If time is lost, all is lost...
...wheel of a Cadillac and driving off. In "The Morning of the Day They Did It," two U.S. military men on SPCA duty ("Space Platform for Checking Aggression") blow the earth to bits out of sheer boredom. "About Myself is a nightmare comedy of numbers set in an Orwellian bureaucracy. ("My left front tire is Number 48KE8846, my right front tire is Number 63T6895".) But if Humorist White jangles the nerves with predictable frequency, he remembers how to jiggle the funny bone too. His four-page "Across the Street and into the Grill," a parody of Hemingway, is a minor...